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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Ruth Bloomfield

London leaver: 'Rent for my house in Barbados is the same as I was paying in East London'

At 5pm on a Friday night Alex Lilburn switches off his computer and jumps in the car.

Five minutes later he is settled down on Gibbs Beach, a peaceful palm tree lined stretch of white sand and glittering sea.

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